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In Reply to: I hope things go well for you posted by Eric LeRouge on March 17, 2004 at 05:34:41:
Yeah, the prob seems to be a quirk with that Asus MOBO. Hardware Analysis is a pretty helpful board btw. I should have my new system up-and-running by next week. I'll report back about my SATA experience. Now it is time to shovel snow so the UPS man can get to my door!best
-o
Follow Ups:
What are you doing for fan noise reduction? Did you order a special fan / heat sink / thermal pads etc or just the usual stuff?I was looking at watercooling at some point, but kind of chickened out... now that I'm stuck with this sata problem, I'm glad I didn't do it, God knows what would have happened, lol
Best
Eric
Hi Eric,Western Digital JD series SATA drives have been very reliable here and absolutely 'plug and play.' In a RAID '0' configuration, they outperform 10k RPM SCSI in certain apps.
Sorry to hear of your troubles with the Maxtor.
Best,
Graemme
Graemme,I had almost forgotten about it...
The SATA disc is now resting unplugged in my PC, I gave up and bought some good old IDE disks until I find the time to take it to the shop (for some stupid reason, I bought it on the internet and have to drive one hour to take it back to their service center)
Anyway, it will probably work... some day
Best
Eric
PS: did you see the Macintosh thread?
No fancy stuff. I'm trying to make a decent system for around $1k that also has nice asthetics. I settled on the Aopen XC Cube barebones box that Hardware Analysis and many others have been touting. I think it will strike a nice balance between performance, price, noise and asthetics.the rest:
3.2 GHz P4 512k buffer
1G pc3200 DDR
160G Seagate SATA
ASUS 9600XL video card
I'll also grab the M-Audio Audiophile 96/24 card out of my current computer. Not sure what to do about CD/DVD-RW, but I'll probably do without a DVD burner until prices come down some. However I might splurge for one of the Plextor drives. We'll see.This will be a serious upgrade from my current(1.3gHz P4) computer to say the least. It is slow, can't multitask, and sounds like a slightly muffled coffee grinder.
As for the water cooling, I just can't get used to the idea of pumping water into a computer!
ta-ta,
-o
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